First Arduino Shield with LED 5050 and Tilt Sensors
Simple Wiring Diagram
First, here's the basic wiring diagram I posted before. It reads from three tilt switches, and controls a standard 5050 LED strip.
My First Shield
In an effort to box this up, I did manage to get everything crammed on to one Arduino Uno shield. It's still a bit messy, and a royal PITA to solder, and needs a better connector to the LED strip, but it work.
Custom PCB
Since the soldering job was such a pain, and I'll have to do this reliably at least 20 times, I started looking at custom PCB printing. Step one, learn the Eagle tool for designing boards. Here's the result (photo cells holding the place of tilt switches).
Arduino Pro Mini
Now that I finally got a new Arduino Pro Mini (cheaper/smaller), I verified that it works just as well as Arduino Uno R3.
